THE WAR.
RUSSIAN BLOW AT ENEMY
FLANK.
4.000 KILLED OR CAPTURED.
BRITISH RESUME OFFENSIVE.
SUCCESSFUL ATTACK NEAR YPRES.
HISTORICAL
IAN
DESPATCH FROM SIR
HAMILTON.
ANGLO-FRENCH GALLANTRY NEVER EXCELLED."
GRIM FIGHTING ON ISONZO.
FRANCO-DELGIAN FRONT..
(THROUGH RECTER'S AGENOT.] RENEWED ACTIVITY OF THE BRITISH.
BNEMY'S TRENCHES CAPTURED.
LONDON, July 6th,
A despatch from Field-Marshal Bir John French says:--
Since my last report there has been no change, and fighting has been mainly confined to intermittent artillery dudes. the feature of which has been the enemy's employment of a large quantity of gay shells, particularly in the neighbourhood of Ypres.
During the same period the eneiny ex- ploded eight mines without damaging our trenches, while, on the contrary, on the 30th June wo blew, in 50 yards of the enemy's frontline north of Neuve Okapelle.
On the evening of the 4th inst. our howitzer fire blew in a German sap to the
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ARRAS AND RHEIMS AGAIN BOMBARDED.
PARIS. July 7th. 1.40 ..
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 8г# 1915.
AUSTRO-ITALIAN FRONT
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GRIM FIGHTING ALONG ISONZO.
AUSTRIANS' BASE METHODS.
Rose, July 7th. That severe fighting is in progress on the Italian front is apparent by the restrained language of the jatest communiqué which saya
The Austrians are stubbornly résisting and repeatedly and vigorously counter attacking the Italian advance along the Isonzo. The enemy up to the present have failed to recapture an inch of ground, though they have been resorting is the basest methods. One of the commonest of
their tricks is that in which at regular
intervals detachments raise their hands in
token of surrender, and then suddenly fall Bat, unmasking dense lines of sharp shooters.
ĮTHE SNOWBALL BAG SALE.
TO AID THE BELGIAN DESTITUTE
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OUTPUT OF MUNITIONS,
LONDON, July 7th.. At a menting of members of the House of Commons of all parties it was decided to initiate a campaign to urge upon muni tion employers and workmen the vital im portance of securing the most output.
Mr. Lloyd George, in a specah, said that if the war were to be won in a moderate period a great inercise in skilled and
in the Colony unskilled workers and female Inbour was started the effort among themselves essential.
AB a result of the appeal published
We desire to remind our readers of the Snowball Bag Sale which takes place in Government House the grounds of to-morrow (Friday) from 4 to 7 p.m. in aid of the Belgians in Belgium and those in England.
When
few ladies
STATE LIQUOR CONTROL IN by Mr. John
-MUNITIONS AKEAS..
LONDON, July 7th.. liquor control to a number of coast towns An Order-in-Council extends the State other areas where war material 13
Handled.
Galsworthy (printed ini the Hongkong Daily Preas of June 6th) there WAS no idea that. it would moet with such wide encour- The original idea was that many Indies agenient and support as it has done.
in Hongkong would gladly do something to help so worthy a cause, and it was suggested that a number of ladies might henceforth have little effect. Notwith-
In this way a little collec standing the difficulties, the Italian com
Is the House of Commons, Sir T. P. tion could be formed and sold for t manders and troops are determined to. attain their objectives, regardless of cost. Whittaker moved the rejection of the benefit of the Fund. The Committee of
The enemy has also been active in the Registration Bill till it has been shown the Peak Club kindly offered the ladies. {
that the Government's present powers were insufficient He did not object to the use of the Club for the proposed Sale, compulsion and conscription if neces sary, but the Bill was needless and raised and the officers of the 74th Panjabis gave the greatest controversy of the day. Any- the services of their Band. ·
The communiqué grimly adds-This will
Tyrol, in Trentino, and in Cornin. Attacks west of Havaredo and north of Palgrande on the 5th inst, were repulsed with heavy lo6ac1.
AIRSHIP ACTIVITY,
{1H2OUGH ETUIER'S AGENCY.] RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT ACTIVE,
BRILLIANT RAIDS:
TRIESTE ARSENAL BOMBED.
→ROME, July 6th, A dirigible bombed Trieste and severely, The airship re- damaged the Arsenal. turned safely,
BRITISH REGISTRATION BILL.
LONDON, July 6th,
make bags.
how the administration of the Bill must: But the little effort quickly grew to not be in the hands of the military. They dimensions which far exceeded the expecta were hopeless in business multers.
SUSTAINING THE WAR MACHINE.
FRENCH PEOPLE BRING THEIR
GOLD.
are not thereby discharging tho dobte of gratitudo, justice, and humanity. Giving hospitality to 200,000 Belgians? IE 19 some thing, but not enough. Not nearly enough! So far we have not faced at all the desperate indead, been asked to. From Canede, and situation of Belgium itself; we have not, Australia, with one-fifth of our population, help to the value of £150,000 a month has nothing. But in future, all eyes are turn- been coming in. From ourselves, practically ing to us; it is we who are now asked to stay the march of death.
BIGH EXPLOSIVES AND SHRAPNEL.
HOW DIFFERENT SHELLS ARE USED.
NORTH OF FRANCE, May 23rd. few days about the different kinds of shells Muck has appeared in print in the Inst
that are used at the front. Some hav
been said to be necessary. others super- | flaona. It has been said that high ex- than shrapnel-that we have too many of plosive shells are much more important those Inst
I may therefore not be out of place to explain the employment and utility of these shells.
The same method has been followed for months, and in view of the precautions taken by the Germans in constructing. second and third lines of fortified defences, ore behind the other, it is probable thas this same method will entiune in use for
lagt me to come.
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When our forces are ordered to advance
Conservative speekors earncelly appeal..tions of its promoters, and Lady May, on ed to the House to support the Bill, and being approached, very kindly offered the the Government.
use of Government House and Gardens they are faced with a whole system of de- for the Sale,
fences established by the enemy. Theso consist of networks of barbed wire," The various committees-General Coutrenches. cemented and armoured with mittee, Tea Committee, Decoration Com- slanting plates of sheet iron, redoubts mittee, Prizes Committee and a number packed with machine guns, and excava
tions. of other helpers have all been working very hard to ensure a pleasant afternoon and a good result, and they extend cordial welcome to all to come and help in this most worthy cause.
PARIS, July 6th. There has been an extraordinary res
ponse to 31. Ribet's appeal for gold is
hastening to bring their gold to the Bank of France. There were incessupt streams towards the six different entrances of all classes, including poor women with gold picces saved for a rainy day, beside people | offering gold valued at 10,000 franca
PETROGRAD, July 6. The Russian aeroplanes have been making brilliant raids latterly. They achieved a great coup at Przeworsk. They dropped bombs on the station, where five long trains were stationed, and ignited The evening communiqué says
one and blew up--as has since been learned The British repulsed several counter-300,000 rounds of artillery ammunition.exchange for paper money, the people attacks against the trenches they captured last night, south-west of Pilken, taking 80 prisoners and inflicting on the enemy very heavy losses.
The Germans
Arras. Lombarded especially the Cathedral, and also Rheims, There has been no infantry action in Argon. We re-took a section of a trench on the heights of the Meuse, capturedNAVAL ACTIVITIES,
and advanced-beyond-A Germans. violent CUPINY" counter attack wiped out by Maxim and shrapnel fire, the remnants of the Germans fleeing FRENCH DESTROYER'S GOOD in disorder. There has been a recrudes cence of activity of the enemy's artillery in the Yesges.
יי
GERMAN FABRICATIONS.
EXPOSED.
WAS
PARIS, July 6th. People here were much disturbed on Monday night by the nanouniment of the
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WORK.
LONDON, July 7th.
BRITISH WAR LOAN.
LONDON, July 8th. The well-known brewers, Guinness and Co, have subscribed £5,000,000 to the War Loom.
The Imperial Tobacco Company has sub- scribed £1,000,000 to the War Loan.
Lasurance Companies to-day are heavily subscribing..
A French destroyer toured the coast of Asia Minor and sank eleven supply ships. | AMPUTATION OPERATIONS ON
GENERAL.
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RITISH SOLDIERS.
To advance against such obstacles with- out preparation would be madness Ib would be utter sacrifice without inflicting
hy serious loss in the enemy.
HIGH EXPLOSIVES,
I is here that the high explosive, shell comes into play. Its uction is prepara- tory to the attack. Its destructivo qualities are used to blow up the works of the enemy, to bring down the concrete walls of the trenches, to slush the barbed Houst | wire, and at the same time to annihilate
Many of the shops have been most generous, and throughout the Colony people have welcomed this opportunity of helping the Belgians. A large attendane is expected at Government to-morrow afternoon. Lady May has kindly allowed the tea to be served in the large ball-room..
ė
It only remainia to be added that the money realised by the Sule is to be sent direct, to England to be devoted partly to the relief of Belgians in England (a work | undertaken by the Belgian Refugee Com- mittee) and partly to the relief of destitute Belgians in Belgium, which is LONDON, July 6th. In the House of Commons, Mr. H. 3. work undertaken by the Belgian Tennant (Lider-Secretary for Wao) said | National Relief Committer, Mr. Gals
tions in the duration of the war.
contributed goes to the Belgians” in the **FRENCH DAY” IN ENGLAND. | form of jo du
LONDON, July 7th. WASHINGTON, Judy 7th,"
The French Red Cross Society is expect High officials rgree that the United States cannot without sacrificing imported to bencât substantially as the resitit of ant neutral rights approve of Germany's proposals. The rxact terms of the Note have not up to the present been divulged,
the men who defend these works. This kind of bombardment must be extremely rapid and violent, tone of explosives must follow each other, and as the enemy is becoming accustomed to this procedura, this work of destruction must be carried on with still greater rapidity, for the enemy knows what such artillery attacks signify, and quickly takes his precautions Accordingly.
Once a certain portion of the ground is more or less cleared the men charge with the bayonet and occupy what were former- ly the enemy's works,
But this advance is attended with infinite danger, and is almost sure to be met with new thrusts from the enemy, who
north of Ypres. A platoon of infantry Germans that they had blondily repulsed GERMANY'S REPLY TO U.S. there had been only 782 British ampatsworthy In his appeal said that every penny send their men to meet ours. ¡ ̈ ̈
the British." The truth is that the British, supported by French artillery. defeated the enemy in Belgium on the east back of the Yser and the Ypres Canal. and captured several enemy trenches.
NOTE
CONCESSIONS INSUFFICIENT.
advanced to complete its destruction, The few Germans who survived the artillery fire were driven out by the bayonet. A machine-gun in the sap was found to have been destroyed. Our casualties were insignificant, and the platoon returned practically intact, having completely succeeded in its mission, The German RUSSIANS ATTACK ENEMY'S but it is known that such concessions as
report that they repulsed an attack on the Pilken road with sanguinary loss is presumably the enemy's version of this affair.
On the morning of the 5th lost, a party of Germans ruslied a barricade on the Ypres Roulers railway after a bombard ment using for two hours, but an imme ́diatè ' counter-attack recaptured the
position,
The morning, on the extreme Loft, north of Ypres, we captured 200 yards of onemy's branches, capturing 80 prisoners. The French on our left contributed to this success with the fire of their guns and
trench mortais,
ACTIVITY ALONG WHOLE FRONT.
TIGHTING STILL FIERCE AT ARRAS.
PARTS, July th. The battle around Artes is still very Berce around Souchez Station, which re mains in our hands, despite the repeated efforts of the Germans. The latter bom- barded Arras throughout the night. The battle ja Argonne has been incessant, The French artillery frequently enveloped the attacking columns in curtains of fire The communiqué adás:~The Germans were twice completely repulsed on the heights of the Meuse.
The Germans resumed the offensive at Roir'le Fretre, and attempted two assaults
in different portions of the wend. These wars entirely checked by artillery and rifle fire, which inflicted heavy losses.
IMPORTANT GERMAN ESSAY
FAILS,
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RUSSIAN FRONT:
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FLANK.
2,000 KILLED AND 2.000 TAKEN PRISONER.
PETROGRAD, July 6thị The enemy's offensive to the cast of Krasnyk has been stopped by a blow delivered at his fank on Sunday night and on Monday to the north-west of Wilkolaz, where we juflicted heavy loss, capturing 2,000 prisoners, while some 2,000 of enemy coppers were littered along our front. The fighting was most desperate.
On the same day we repulsed fresh attempts at the offensive between the Wieprz and the western Bug. All is quiet along the upper Bug, at Zlatalipa, and on the Dniester.
THE NEAR EAST"
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SIR IAN HAMILTON'S HISTORICAL DESPATCH,
French Day" in England to-day, the arrangements for which are most elaborats,
There are to be special services at West minster Abbey aud St Paul's Cathedral, The Royal Family will attend a fets at Montagu Hause.
Germany is willing to make are considered insufficient. Indeed it is believed that President Wilson will make it clear to Germany that the, United States will not DESPAIRED OF SUCCESS? make any concessions from the position
GERMAN NEWLY APPOINTED based in the Internationa} Naval
MINISTER COMMITS SUICIDE. Prize Codes. It appears that Germany in not willing to yield to the United States
ATHENS, July 6th nights undry International Law, and asks
Colonel Leipziger, tht German Military for many compromises or concessions Attache at Constantinople, who was re- involving America's surrender of import-cently appointed interim Minister at at neutral rights.
Sofia, has committed suicide.
AMERICAN MILLIONAIRE'S
ASSAILANT. -
Officials are of opinion that Germany's offer of immunity with many restrictions to certain passenger ships would permit Germany to interpret what America's rights are on the High Seas, both doubtless involving the United States sooner or later in difficulties with other belligerents...
GENERAL VON SANDERS REPORTED WOUNDED.
ATERS, July 7th.
It is reported here that General Liman von Sanders and three high Germons officers have been wounded in Gallipoli.
NEW ZEALAND AND THE WAR.
Á MIRACLE OF ARMS.
LONDON, July 6th.
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), July 7th. General Sir Ian Hamilton's despatch
The Opposition has rejected the Govern- besides giving the minutest details of the early operations by which the Allies erentment's offer to form a National Ministry towards Krithia, is a historical document for the duration of the war, suggesting as | showing that the gallantry of the British
an alternative the extension of the powers and French has never been excelled in the of the special Parliamentary Defence Com world's history.
mittge la deal with all questions arising Sir Ian Hamilton pays repeated tributes out of the war..
.......
to the officers and men, the whole despatch
showing that the landing on the Gallipoli SOUTH AFRICA'S PATRIOTISM.
Peninaula was little short of miraculous, For example, he says, regarding the defences of the beach westward of Seddel- bahr:-
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PRETORIA, July 7th. "My firm conviction is that no finer feat
The Imperial Government has accepted of armis has ever been achieved by British the Union of South Africa's offer of a soldiers or any other soldiers than the contingent for service overseas. PARIS, July 6th,
storming of these trenches from open An official Note emphasizes the failure hosts."
EXPLOSION IN CANADIAN. of the German attempt with large forces
Such phrases as: A hurricane ol to out the communications
EXPLOSIVES FACTORY. lead swept the battalion, and a long line Verdun and Chalous. The attack was
MONTEEAL, July 7th. completely stopped in 200 yards, and of men were mown down as by a scythe" German attacks have since been defeated
are almost commonplace in this despatch. Beve men, including a British Govern with very heavy loss. The number of An insight into the whole campaign 18 ment inspector, were killed in an explosion
German
afforded by this following brief extract at a factory of the Canadian Explosives prisoners alleged in a muniqué is the total of our killed, "At first we had them fairly on the Company. It is believed that a German, wounded, and prisoners.
run, and bub for the inventions of the who was formerly employed at the factory, The alleged Germany success at Feyenderil, machine-guns, and barbed wire, we is responsible. haye, Bois le Pretre, is an invention.
A GERMAN CLAIM.
between
com-
AMSTERDAM, July 6th.
A German communiqué claims that they have captured 1,000 Frenchmen at Burs Je Pretro.
should not have stopped short at the crest of Achibaba." -
Sir Tan Hamilton has the highest praise for the Navy and his Staff, and declares. that the Navy and Army harmonized per fectly, and throughout all the events the Navy has been father and mother to the Army."
RIOTING IN CEYLON,
+
· COMMITS SUICIDE IN CELL,
New Youn. July 7th. Holt, the silent of Mr. J. P Morgan, was found dead in his cell apparently having committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver.
A great mystery surrounde the deal Holt. A doctor his certified that the skull was fractured, but there was no evidence of the explosion of a bullet,
Of the conflicting versions the most probable is that when the cell-door was open for a moment Holt rushed out and jumped from a window 50 ft. from the ground.
A
Portions of Holt's great stoms of dynamite are cropping up at different places. trunk containing 134 sticks of dynamite, with fuse, has arrived at a New York storehouse. Holt confessed that there were others at various points of Long Island. WASHINGTON, July 7th. Sir C. Spring-Rice (British Ambassa dor) had a prolonged conference with Secretary of State Lancing, and recounted the shooting of Mr. Morgan, whose assuil ant the Minister aided to disarm. INTERESTING APPOINTMENTS,
Losnox, July 6th. The London Guette, under the beading “Corimands and Staff." announces that the Jam Sahib of Nawanagar (K. 8. Baniitsinibi) and Raja Batham have been appointed Honorary Aides-de-Camp.
EAST INDIAN REVENUE,
LONDON, July 6th.
Since it was, Mr. Galsworthy's letter of May and which led to the promotion of this Snow hall Bag Sale, it may of service if we reproduce the fallowing paragraples from it;-
We have pledged our honour to restore Belginn. But Belgium is not a word--it is u people; and the Belgian people is starving If en let it perish during the process uf Festoration we shall have grasped only, the shadow of our insk.
Mr. Hoover, Chairman of the Neutral Commission for Relief in Belgium, and Mr. Franequi. Chairman of the Committee in Brussels, tell us that "at least a million and a half Belgians ars
now entirely destitute. With the rapid exhistion of the meat and vegetable supplies, there will probably be before harvest time, 2,500,000 Belgians who must be fed and clothed solely by clarity. The remaining 4,500,000 - will get their pitiful daily allowance of bread through the Commission and will pay for it. And they add: Will you help us to keep the destitute alive? "
SHRAPNEL
It is at this stage that the shrapnel makes its appearance. Fired at a low angle the bursting strapnel shell 'must precede our troops at little distancs and sweep away the enemy mass charging our troops. It is work in which the French exed, and requires very exact and delicate accuracy. The shell must, eo to speak, shave the heads of our own men in oriler to burst just above the heads of the enemy, and prevent, if possible, the arrival of their reinforcements.
It is clear, therefore, from this short summary, that both kinds of shells are necessary, the one for preparing the attack and the other in pursuing it elcacionsly. On the other hand, it is evident that an attack cannct he followed up victoriously further than the limit of ground which has been cleaned up the high explosive shells..
WAR BREVITIES.
that immediately Italy intervened. Slatin Reuter's Zurich correspondent states Pasha volunteered for active service at the Italian front as Lieutenant.
Mr. Tonnant, replying to a quration suggesting cast-iron shells, said that shell bodies were not lacking. The production of other components governs the output.
During the attack on the enemy at Montecorado the Italians stampeded wild buffaloes against the Austrian entangle monts as a means of smashing a way through,
This neutral Cornmission, marvellously organised and administered, has hitherto succeeded in just keeping abreast of tho situation, raising its finds from America, other neutral contrise, and the British Colonies. Bet their funds are falling fast; and their needs are getting greater. It is in response to their desperate appeal that a National Committee for Belgian Relief has now been formed in our country, and every penny it collects will go without deduction into the hands of the "neral Commission, and through them to the starving Belgian
News has been received in Gloucester people, in the form of food. So far Germany has kept her word not to filch what is sent of the death in action, at Ypres, of Harry for the Belgians; and the organisation of Berry, the famous old Gloucester City, relief now makes it almost impossible for Gloucester County and English interna a German to touch one leaf of Belgian bread, tional Rugby forward. The present need is for £500,000 a month;
The Amsterdam Handelshed in an aukspoken article, declares" If. Ger- the future need will be even greatet,"
Our own exigencies arų, „of course, tremen many proclaims. the annexation of dons; but what would they not be if Belgium Belgium during the war Holland should had consulted her own material needs, had regard it as a causus belli. just chown to save herself instead of saving the Western world? With Belgium con- Captured German officers state that the placent to the Germans, Paris gone. Calais demand is all for artillery and limitless gone--it would have meant another year on shells. These have been used at a rate to the years we may have to fight, an extra exceeding the output. Germany has, her five hundred million pounds cf money, an own shell problem, as her masses of If ever infantry have proved an indecisive factor. extra hundred thousand lives. Country wed debt, this country owes it p Belgium, to keep the breath in the bodies of her people. Owes it, and must pay it.
In standing to her gans Belginin saved, of touring Serbia says that much land is pon, the whole world, for modern civilisa still flooded, specially northward of the Serbia is quite prepared for a tion is built on nothing if not on good faith | Danube, and honourable obligation; but it is France general offensive. Typhus is now hardly a serious problem. Cholera has now and Britain, before all that she has saved. France, however, has a terrific task in the appeared. rescue of her own ruined millions in the Dr. Delbrueck (Minister for the north. Thanks, perhaps, to ruined Belgium, Interior, speaking in the Prussian Diet Britain has not, may never have, to rescue on the 5th ult. ssid the food question and restore ruhed towns and countryside. §. ruight be regarded as having been solved.
In return, what is Britain doing? Spend It was even possible that considerable
The Times correspondent at Saloniki, who returned three weeks ago from
In the House of Commons, replying to Mr. J. King as to whether the Premier would now redeem his promise of the 6th August. 1914, to discuss the East Indian Revenue Account early in the present Bession, Mr. Lloyd George said that Mr. Asquith had been in consultation with Mr. Bonar Law, replying to Sir J. Dr. Chamberlain, but he did not believing money and blood like water, to drive the reserves would be carried over into the Rees, said that voluminous reports on that any public purpose would be served recent rioting in Cevlon contain nohy the discussion of the matter under the evidence of German instigation,
present extraordinary circumstances,
LONDON, July 6th.
Germans out of Belgium? Tes Bnt let coming harvest, and that the quantity of s be honest. We should have had to dy four and potatoes would reach the normal that in any case, for our own interest. We peace consumption.